Kate O’Donoghue

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Among a certain sect of DC fans – often female, queer, and active on online fandoms from Tumblr and the like – Young Justice is basically the DC ur-text. I say that with such authority because it was my own experience, and Young Justice was one of the first DC series I read in full as a sixteen-year-old in 2011, nearly ten years after the series ended. I discovered comics for the first time with the help of Tumblr masterposts and Wikipedia deep dives, and fell into a deep, abiding obsession with DC in particular. Despite that obsession, it was not easy learning how to “read” DC history. It was not natural, and the knowledge was not ingrained, other than perhaps the basic secret identities and Justice League characters. To the me of 2011, Doiby Dickles existed, contextless, in the vacuum of YJ. How would I know otherwise?

This week on the site @kateodo.bsky.social took on Young Justice, the ur-text for a new generation of comic book readers: shelfdust.com/2025/10/01/y...

wow! what a joy to write abt my favorite comic and my favorite sport SIMULTANEOUSLY for @shelfdust.bsky.social !!! ever grateful to steve for putting up w me and for being the first person I pitched post-screenrant

The Things I Thought and Did Not Say While Writing For a Content-Mill In 1996, Jerry Maguire was laughed out of his office for publishing a company-wide memo encouraging his industry to take a more human approach.

Oh, a new Valnet sucks article. Don't tease me with a good time (the article is worth reading)

danielcruse.substack.com/p/the-things...

come for the deft argument for density, stay for a breakdown of Gorilla CNN

Shelfdust’s Column, Jimmy Olsen: Issue #4 What’s the difference between a crazy board and a sociogram? By Kate O’Donoghue It’s ya gurl Kate O’Donoghue and check it — I’m about to take a silly little comic issu…

“What’s the difference between a crazy board and a sociogram?”

@kateodo.bsky.social brings out the charts and string for Jimmy Olsen issue 4 - it sure is some content: shelfdust.com/2024/10/02/s...

A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?

1/ Sharing my story with the NYTimes was not an easy decision. My north star goal is always liberation and a free Palestine. That led me to decide to participate in this article despite my concerns.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...

What the Mariners’ Pride Video Gets Right

This week, the Seattle Mariners released a video for Pride. I was expecting cheesy corporate blandness. Instead, the video was thoughtful and well considered. Here's what the ‪@mariners.com‬ got right with their celebration of Pride.
thefanfiles.com/articles/mariners-pride-video-2025

an all-timer Nancy right here folks

NANCY By Ernie Bushmiller I MUST RUN OUT AND SEE MY FAVORITE SIGHT SIGN ON BUILDING- YUMM'S CONE CO wow.. WHAT A DELICIOUS SIGHT ( NANCY WATCHES AS THE MOON RISES AND APPEARS TO SIT ON THE YUMM’S CONE CO. GIANT CONE DISPLAY, THE MOON GIVES THE APPEARANCE OF BEING A GIANT SCOOP OF ICE CREAM)

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 14,1953

PRAYER Turn page

Jack Kimball

also making my tri-monthly attempt to embrace bluesky, it'll totally stick this time. I miss hearing what people are up to!!! instagram is just not the same

in the wake of being laid off from screenrant (I'M FREE), I'm ready to make my rip-roaring return to weird and wacky comics writing. STAY TUNED I'M EXCITED

relatedly: if you know or hear abt any job opps that might suit me, a book and comics lover with 10-years experience, think of me, won't you?

TMNT logo saying “four completely normal people”

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

the emperor himself is not this happy

Matthew Rohrer

abolish grading bc it’s pedagogically unsound but also bc I don’t want to do it

Roberta Iannamico

the “scroll INTO the past” is very dangerous for me, timewise, because I hit no limits. I need to hit that hard limit of “YOU ARE UP TO DATE AND HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO SCROLL” 😭😭😭

hi bsky. I think I would be more likely to use this app if the main feed “remembered my place” and I could scroll up to read new posts since I last opened the app. (yes, like twitter, sue me.) is there some setting I can make work for me?

Another wonderful piece from Shelfdust's series of monthly essays looking at the Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen mini series one issue at a time.

This month, @kateodo.bsky.social writes about issue 4, in which Lois Lane goes to Gotham to rescue Jimmy, who is turning into a prize asshole.

not for nothing, but I also have a poem, “The World’s More Full of Weeping,” in the new issue of bennington review! name me another poem that co-stars aquaman and yeats, I dare you

all my gratitude to the editors 💕

hey look! I took some bits and gags way too seriously! and had a lot of fun doing it!

shelfdust rules. forever grateful steve invited me to participated in this genuinely illuminating series. yay comics!

🤢

well buddy…………

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This week on Shelfdust: @kateodo.bsky.social is BACK

okay last one from literally monday, nice 2 c all u bluesky people, sorry if I fucked up the etiquette xoxo

lol the mets

“adult content” bc it’s a nakey bloody splash page for zoe thorogood’s hack/slash btw